Main Fallout 3 Discussion

Did a bit of an overhaul on the main page, but I don't think I've got enough time to fix up the characters page today so some of tropes I said I moved are in limbo at the moment. I'll expand on the characters page and drop those tropes there next I have time to, unless someone else wants to do it first :3

MarshalValor

09:35:23 AM Nov 16th 2012

So is this "overhaul" why the main pages for Fallout 3 and New Vegas are blank?

KrazyKopter

06:37:51 PM Nov 18th 2012

The page still exists, but under "Video Games". The Main page is normally supposed to redirect to it, but apparently it doesn't anymore. I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it needs to resolved at some point.

He has no real problem with ghouls staying at Tenpenny Tower, despite what other NP Cs (especially the ghouls) say. Even though his initial reluctance proves justified. Oh, and Gustavo tells you to kill those ghouls, not Tenpenny.

Even though he's quite involved in this whole nuking Megaton business, he believes the residents will be evacuated beforehand. Burke wants to kill everyone inside. Tenpenny justs wants a prettier sight (even though you can't really see the freaking thing from the Tower) and maybe some fireworks.

He doesn't have all his wits about him. He seems always a bit whimsical and a Howard Hughesesqe recluse.

Killing Tenpenny (or have Roy kill him) doesn't stop Burke from wanting to nuke Megaton. So he's the one behind the operation and has obviously lied to Tenpenny about the specifics (evacuation and all that).

All in all, it seems that Tenpenny is merely a figurehead, and Tenpenny Tower is really run by Burke and Gustavo.

Yes, he kept a slave. Seeing as morality is back to pre-Civil War levels, this doesn't strike me as all that unusual. In fact, it's impressive how few people actually have slaves.

70.56.216.107

07:48:07 PM Aug 27th 2010

Consider the following: He leaves a finger when killed, like all evil-aligned humans in the game (This is metagame thinking, but still). He almost certainly kept Mei Wong as a sex slave, not a worker (furthermore, just because peoples' moralities have regressed does not mean slavery is not evil). He keeps a sniper rifle by his person so that he can amuse himself by killing random wastelanders that get near his building. Even if he doesn't actively hate ghouls like some of the residents, he plainly doesn't care enough to help them himself. Burke is unaffected by Tenpenny's death to prevent player actions from locking them out of one quest by accomplishing the other.

KainLupus

06:39:37 AM Aug 29th 2010

Apathy and Evil don't necessarily go hand in hand. And just because we know why they made it so Burke want to nuke Megaton doesn't change the fact that he does. I do, however, agree with your point that having a slave would still be classed as evil if everyone else also had one

MCE

03:32:11 PM Sep 27th 2011

There is that whole 'shooting random wastelanders from his tower' issue.

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